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To: willcousa who wrote (471)12/7/2001 11:19:49 PM
From: Mark Marcellus  Read Replies (1) of 786
 
they ignore the fact that none of the Al Quaida asked the 4000 Americans about their rights before they offed them.

By that standard, virtually all accused criminals are not entitled to due process. Let's give Ashcroft some credit though, he seems to be very concerned with maintaining the right of potential terrorists to bear arms.

What really should concern EVERYONE about our ham handed Attorney General is the real possibility that, down the road, he is going to present the courts with an unpleasant choice. They will either have to hold their noses and abrogate the U.S. Constitution or, by upholding the Constitution, they will have to let people who are obviously guilty of terrorist crimes, and who could have been successfully prosecuted within Constitutional boundaries, needlessly go free. I am hard pressed to determine which is worst, but in the long run I think that violating the Constitution would cause more harm. One way or another the terrorist will eventually die, but the precedent would live forever.
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